Re: [gpm] Fwd: deal with BIOS that changes the backlight

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:05 +0200, yelo_3 wrote:
> Hello, I have an HP laptop and the BIOS automatically sets the
> brightness to 0% when I remove the AC, and sets it back to 100% when
> plugging in the AC.
> gnome-power-manager cannot deal with this type of BIOS:
> 1) when this happens the brightness applet does not get updated
> 2) there should be a way to overwrite this behavior

I think you need to set the brightness_in_hardware key -- see the hal
mailing list or
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-backlight-index.html for more information.

Thanks,

Richard.